FIVE] LAWNS AND SHRUBBERIES 
Grevy, a beautiful blue, with very large and very 
double individual flowers, measuring three-quar- 
ters of an inch in diameter. This is one of the 
finest of all the lilacs. Michael Buchner is a dwarf, 
bushy variety, with very double pale flowers of a 
delicate lilac hue. This list does not include one- 
half of the really choice new lilacs. 
Another of the old-fashioned flowers is the sy- 
ringa or mock orange. ‘The newer varieties num- 
ber at least twenty-five, and are all the way from 
bushes of two feet to twelve feet in height. A good 
collection covers a long season, of not less than two 
months. One of the dwarf varieties is double, and 
the flowers are rosettes, equal to white roses — 
but they are sparsely borne. Three or four of the 
choicest are the grandiflorus, with very large flow- 
ers; the nivalis, with cream-colored stamens; the 
Gordon, which has very profuse flowers very late 
in the season. The golden-leaved syringa is a 
small growing bush, with golden yellow foliage; 
and the willow-leaved has leaves curled at the 
edges; while the downy-leaved has soft, satin-like 
leaves. 
The old-fashioned hydrangea, which our moth- 
ers grew in tubs, has been supplemented by the 
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